Luke's First "Job" Interview

A recent article in the Des Moines Register was about incentives Iowa offers to filmakers and how it is drawing them here to make movies. Recently there was a movie called South Dakota that was casting a two year old boy. Mom encouraged me to submit Luke's picture, but we didn't hear anything.

So today I was rounding up my students at the end of our field trip and saw I had a missed call. I called back and it was the casting agency! They were auditioning for a two year old boy with brown eyes, which just happens to be the color of Luke's that people always comment on!

So I took Luke to talent agency director's house for Lukey's very first job "interview." Luke walked right in like he was going to grandma's or something. She gave him some directions to follow like "Can you stand on the x?", and "Can you walk over here?", and "Can you sit down on the x?" He followed directions great; now if he would always be that super-obedient at home!

Next she asked him to repeat things she said, like "ice cream" and "Can I have some ice cream?" Those turned out to be his lines and I have to say he aced them! She commented on how well he talked.

He didn't do so hot on the "copycat game." He didn't want to look sad for her, he told her he wanted to be happy. But later he got all quiet looking at her antique carousel that he couldn't play with and she asked him if he was sad so maybe that will work.

Then he just kind of played and chatted it up with her about Spiderman and sorts of stuff like that. He asked if he could rock on her rocking horse and he did that for a moment and was done. He heard traffic nearby and was asking about that. He just kind of was himself; typical two year old boy.

So it was pretty cool to see what that is all about. I was kind of blown away when I had a chance to read the info she sent me at home tonight. This is a real movie. It is starring Ellen Page from Juno, which I have been wanting to see and got great reviews and Cillian Murphy who was in The Girl With The Pearl Earring, which I havent seen, but recently put down as one of my favorite books on my profile.

So here is Ellen Page and my mom's recent scrapbook page about Luke's encounter with a real peacock at the zoo, which did I mention the name of the movie is "Peacock?" Do you think he could pass for her child?